Meanings
adverbscasely (not comparable)
- colloquialdateddialectalnot comparableobsoletescarcely; hardly
For it scasely ever chaunceth that the moste vertuous amonge vertuous
1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC1 more example
If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic. Scasely. He was down on 'em. His word was, 'No Irish need apply!'
1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It
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